Artists
Companies and Artists
-
Ane Lan , Kløfta, Norway
Homepage of Norwegian performance artist Ane Lan
Ann Liv Young (Brooklyn, NYC)
Ann Liv Young was born on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and has been creating dance work for over eight years. Her work has been presented at major venues in New York City and Europe.r
Antonio Tagliarini (Rome, Italy)
Italian performer who's work is developed between dance and theatre.
Anya Liftig (Brooklyn, New york)
An internationally touring performance artist (recently noted for her guerilla intervention into Marina Abramovic's Retrospective)
Ash Bulayev (Athens, Greece)
An inter-medial artist focusing on dance, theatre, and interactive media.
Astrid Endruweit (Berlin, Germany)
Astrid Endruweit is a dancer and actress for eight years with Michael Laub / Remote Control Productions. She also creates and performers her own work.
Bad Co. (Zagreb, Croatia)
A collaborative performance collective based in Zagreb, Croatia. The artistic core of the collective are Pravdan Devlahović, Ivana Ivković, Ana Kreitmeyer, Tomislav Medak, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Nikolina Pristaš and Zrinka Užbinec.
Baktruppen (Bergen, Norway)
Performance group based in Bergen
Banana Bag & Bodice (Brooklyn, USA)
Banana Bag & Bodice is an ensemble-based theatre company that creates unique Play Shows with a strong emphasis on original text, music and design. Founded in 1999, we have created 9 original productions varying in style and content, from a futuristic
Band of Bless (Montreal, Canada)
Performance artist DANA MICHEL.
Big Dance Theater (NYC, USA)
Founded in 1991, Big Dance Theater is known for its inspired use of dance, music, text and visual design to expand and refract literary texts, weaving disparate sources and forms into seamless theatrical wholes.
Blast Theory (London, UK)
A group of seven artists based in London who make live events for theatres, clubs, galleries and the street.
Bruno Beltrão / Grupo de Rua (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
A Brazilian choreographer who has worked since 1996 with his Grupo de Rua (GRN). He uses urban dances in the context of conceptual theatre and tries to find a theatrical credibility for hip hop. During eight years he has been mixing various influences, in
Caden Manson/Big Art Group (NYC, USA)
A New York City performance company founded in 1999. The company uses the language of media and blended states of performance in a unique form to build culturally transgressive and challenging new works.
Carte Blanche | The Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance (Bergen, Norway)
Carte Blanche was established in 1989 as the Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance. It is located in Bergen, the second largest city in Norway. From here the company tours extensively in Norwa
Chelfitch (Tokyo, Japan)
The company's name, "chelfitsch," is Okada's coinage. It represents the baby-like disarticulation of the English word "selfish." It is meant to evoke the social and cultural characteristics of today's Japan, not least of Tokyo.
Christian Rizzo / Association Fragile (Paris, France)
Christian Rizzo is not easy to define. He is a multifaceted artist who thinks outside the box, developing his favorite themes and obsessions, revisiting archetypes and rituals and essentializing them into abstract signs, bridging extremes: vagueness and h
Complicite (London, UK)
Each collaborative adventure into the unknown starts off, anything is possible. The result is an astonishingly broad and continually evolving spectrum of work. It is built on what Artistic Director Simon McBurney calls a series of extraordinary and intric
Constanza Macras : Dorky Park (Berlin, Germany)
Dorky Park is a dance company from Berlin, Germany, created and directed by choreographer Constanza Macras. Initially, between 1997 an 2003, the dance troupe was called Tamagotchi Y2K. Constanza Macras was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she studie
Crew (Belgium)
A Belgium-based performance group. Eric Joris being its key figure, this production team has brought together people from different domains depending on the projects that were being made. On the whole, CREW has insisted on making performances at the melti
Damaged Goods .::. Meg Stuart (Brussels, Belgium)
Since 1994, Meg Stuart has been working in Brussels with her company Damaged Goods, a non-profit organisation. Her evening-length pieces Disfigure Study (1991), No Longer Readymade (1993) and No One Is Watching, have been touring extensively throughout Eu
David Levine (Berlin, Germany)
Works in video, theater, performance and installation. Works examine the intersection of art, work, and spectatorship.
Dean Moss / Gametophyte inc. (Brooklyn, USA)
A multidisciplinary director/choreographer making immersive, often transcultural, performance collaborations.
Decadancetheatre (Brooklyn, New York)
International all female theatrical hip-hop company.
deufert +plischke (Berlin, Germany)
Welcome to the website of deufert +plischke. If you want to know who we are you can find a number of texts to download including some reviews on our work in the Apropos section
Dumbtype (Tokyo, Japan)
Founded in 1984, the artist collective Dumb Type is based in Kyoto, Japan. Members are trained in varied disciplines, including visual arts, architecture, music composition and computer programming. Their work ranges across such diverse media as art exhib
Elevator Repair Service (NYC, USA)
Founded by director John Collins and a group of actors in 1991. Since that time, ERS has built a body of work that has earned it a loyal following and made it one of New York’s most highly-acclaimed experimental theater companies of the past 20 years.
Fanny & Alexander (Ravenna, Italy)
Fanny & Alexander is an art workshop founded in Ravenna in 1992 by Luigi de Angelis and Chiara Lagani. To date they have produced about forty events ranging across theatre, video and film, installation, photographic exhibitions, conferences and study
Forced Entertainment (Sheffield, UK)
Our work spans theatre and performance through digital media, video installation and publication. It is original, contemporary work that develops new forms and old to find the most effective articulation of its ideas. The work is shown in a variety of con
Gisèle Vienne (Paris, France)
Gisèle Vienne, born 1976, lives and works in Paris and Grenoble. After studying philosophy, she follows the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionette from 1996 to 1999. She is a choreographer / director, performer and plasticienne.
Gob Squad (Berlin, Germany)
Gob Squad make performances, videos, installations and weird happenings, mixing performance, theatre, film and real life. Founded in 1994, the company is based in Nottingham, Hamburg and Berlin.
Granular Synthesis
Kurt Hentschlaeger und Ulf Langheinrich have been working together as Granular-Synthesis since 1991
Guillermo Gómez-Peña - La Pocha Nostra (LA, USA)
In 1993 Guillermo Gòmez Peña, Roberto Sifuentes, and Nola Mariano founded La Pocha Nostra in Los Angeles, California.
Guy Cassiers
Born in Antwerp (Belgium) in 1960, is one of the most versatile theatre makers in Flanders and the Netherlands. He originally studied graphic art at the Academy of Fine Art in Antwerp. From 1988 to 1992 Cassiers was artistic director of the company Oud Hu
Headlong (Philadelphia, PA - USA)
Over the years, Headlong has created over forty dances, many of which are known for their witty take on contemporary culture. Rather than relying on a single dance style or technique, Headlong develops a unique movement vocabulary for each new piece.
Heiner Goebbels
The composer and director Heiner Goebbels (*1952) belongs to the most important exponents of the contemporary music and theatre scene. His compositions for ensembles and big orchestras published by » Ricordi Munich are currently performed worldwide as wel
Hotel Modern (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
A theatre company, established in 1997. They blend visual art, object theatre, drama, music, film, modelling and performance in evocative productions.
Hotel Proforma (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Hotel Pro Forma displaces the notion of theatre into new territories that lie between art and non-art, theatre and non-theatre, between the physical and the metaphysical expression. Performances occupy a space between construction and sensation, conscious
Implied Violence (Seattle, Washington)
Implied Violence is an intimate, intelligent, connected group of emerging artists who create work with and for one another. We are mercurial youngsters with style and wit. We keep secrets and speak in code.
Jared Gradinger (Berlin, Germany )
A performer, creator and curator living in Berlin
Jared Gradinger (Berlin, Germany)
A performer, creator and curator living in Berlin
Jay Scheib (NYC, USA)
Writer, Director and Designer, Jay Scheib has been developing new works for performance for over ten years in the US and throughout Europe.
Jeremy Wade (Berlin, Germany)
Jeremy Xido (Vienna, Austria)
Originally from Detroit, graduated cum laude in Painting and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. In 2000 received a Fulbright Grant to develop the company Cabula6 in Barcelona.
Jerome Bel (Caluire et Cuire, France)
has been creating intriguing theatrical works since 1994
John Jasperse Company (NYC, USA)
Featuring the choreography of John Jasperse, the Company continues to build a growing presence on the international contemporary dance scene.
John Jesurun ( NYC, USA)
A playwright, director, designer living in New York. His presentations integrate elements of language, film, architectural space and media.
Jonah Bokaer (Brooklyn, USA)
An award-winning choreographer and media artist. He has dedicated a short lifetime to expanding possibilities for live performance through choreography, digital media, crossdisciplinary collaborations, and social enterprise, in the United States and inter
Judith Sanchez Ruiz (NYC, USA)
Choregrapher/Dancer/Teacher
Julie Tolentino (NY & Joshua Tree, California)
International touring movement based performance
Kathy Rose (NYC, USA)
Kathy Rose’s work has evolved from her early drawn animated films of the 1970’s, through her unique, pioneering performance work combining dance with film in the 1980-90’s, to her current surreal performance video spectacles and installations, with influ
Keith Hennessy / Circo Zero (SF, USA)
Hennessy is a Canadian-born performer, director and organizer living in San Francisco since 1982. Creating performances for theaters and streets, Hennessy’s work is marked by queerly evocative images, untamed physicality, and sharp political texts. He dir
koosil-ja/danceKUMIKO (NYC, USA)
Koosil-ja moved to New York in 1981 to study dance with Merce Cunningham. She has received five National Endowment for the Arts Choreographer Fellowships and three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships.
Kurt Hentschlager
Chicago based Austrian artist Kurt Hentschläger creates performances and environments. The immersive nature of his work reflects on the metaphor of the sublime and the human condition.
La Fura dels Baus (Barcelona, Spain)
Cutting edge theatre company with a 25 year history. Information about past and upcoming work. [English, Spanish and Catalan]
La MaMa ETC (NYC, USA)
Cultural organization led by founder Ellen Stewart. For 47 years La MaMa has passionately pursued its original mission to develop, nurture, support, produce and present new and original performance work by artists of all nations and cultures.
La Ribot
In 1991, under the name of La Ribot, the Madrid artist took her work along new paths by creating scenic works at the moving intersection of live art, performance and video. Humour and eccentricity are the distinctive features of her work, which covers a b
LeeSaar (NYC, USA)
LeeSaar The Company was established in Israel in 2000 by the actress and writer Lee Sher and The Dancer/Choreographer Saar Harari. The company uses the different disciplines and training of Theater and Dance to create original dance and theater performanc
Les idiotes
Artist Women Duo - Nö-Action
Lindy Annis (Berlin, Germany)
Lindy Annis was born in Boston, U.S.A. She studied acting and theater at New York University (Experimental Theatre Wing): Bachelor of Arts/Drama. She moved to Berlin, Germany where she works as performance artist, theater author and other related roles.
Lola Arias (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Writer, performer, theater director and songwriter. Texts have been translated to English, French and German and she has been presented in Avignon, Steirischer Herbst, Spielart and In Transit.
Luciana Achugar (NYC, USA)
luciana achugar is an Uruguayan choreographer based in Brooklyn.
Mabou Mines (NYC, USA)
An avant-garde theatre company founded in 1970 and based in New York City. The company was founded by JoAnne Akailitis, Lee Breuer, Philip Glass, Ruth Maleczech, and David Warrilow. It was named after Mabou Mines, Nova Scotia, where the founders rehearsed
Maike Lond (Tallinn, Estonia)
Musician, interdisciplinary artist. Graduated Interfaculty Art Science in Royal Academy of Art in Der Haag. In 2008-2009 worked with Von Krahl Theatre on “Is There A Life After Capitalism” and “Republic of Dreams”
Marcio Carvalho (Portugal)
Portuguese artist working in the field of video, performance and photography.
Massimo Furlan (Genève, Switzerland)
Born from Italian parents in Lausanne on October 8th, 1965, Massimo Furlan, after having followed training at the Beaux-Arts School of Lausanne (1984-1988), initiates an operating cycle centred on the themes of the memory and the forgetting.
Michel Schweizer / La Coma (Bordeaux, France)
Michel Schweizer works in Bordeaux, where he has studied both theatre and visual arts. In his work he combines theatre, dance, visual art and entrepreneurship. He calls his artistic enterprise La Coma a profit centre. From this centre he starts off his pu
Miguel Gutierrez and The Powerful People (Brooklyn, NYC)
A dancer and music artist based in Brooklyn. I create group work with the Powerful People and I also make solos.
Mobile Academy (Berlin, Germany)
The Mobile Academy always changes location, time and theme, maintaining a consistent intensity and a growing sense of doubt.
Muta Imago (Rome, Italy)
Muta Imago is a Rome - based theatre group born in 2004 after the meeting of Riccardo Fazi, dramaturg, Claudia Sorace, director and Massimo Troncanetti, stage designer. From 2006 the group firmly collaborates with the actor Glen Blackhall. Moving from
Nao Bustamante (LA, USA)
Nao Bustamante is an internationally known performance and video artist originating from the San Joaquin Valley of California. Her work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation and video.
National Theater of United States of America (NYC, USA)
Through multiplicity of voice and vision, we create unified, intoxicating, space-specific theatrical universes which our audiences complete. Together, we confront the culture and history that we all breathe, promoting multiple perceptions, questions and o
Nature Theater of Oklahom (NYC, USA)
Nature Theater of Oklahoma is a New York-based performance group under the direction of Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper. The ensemble strives to create an unsettling live situation that demands total presence from everyone in the room.
Need Company (Brussels, Belgium)
is a performance group based in Brussels, Belgium)
New Paradise Laboratories (Philadelphia, USA)
founded to create surprising, meticulous, spiritually challenging, and wholly distinctive experimental theatre productions that investigate the human body and its capacity for physical expression, on-stage and in lfe. These productions are invented using
Nibroll (Tokyo, Japan)
Tokyo based collaborative of choreographer, musicaians, Fashion designers and visual arts
NO99 (Tallinn, Estonia)
is a state-owned repertoire theatre that has its own building with two theatre halls in central Tallinn. The theatre’s artistic director is Tiit Ojasoo, and Ene-Liis Semper is the chief stage designer-director. Texts are often composed by the directors th
Orthographe (Ravenna, Italy)
Created in 2004 around the research work of Alexander Panzavolta and the optical chamber. The group's name derives from their first show Orthographe de la physionomie en mouvement, a creation for the Venice Biennale 2005.
Pan Pan (Dublin, Ireland)
Pan Pan have created 15 new productions and has toured throughout Ireland as well as Germany, Netherlands, U.K, Italy,Sweden, Poland, Austria, Australia and Korea. Pan Pan also founded and produce the Dublin International Theatre Symposium .
Par B.Leux (Montréal Québec, Canada)
Founded in 1996 by its artistic director, choreographer Benoît Lachambre, par b.l.eux is a company dedicated to research and creation in dance.
Pig Iron (Philadelphia, PA - USA)
Founded in 1995 as an interdisciplinary ensemble, Pig Iron Theatre Company is dedicated to the creation of new and exuberant performance works that defy easy categorization.
Ping Chong & Company (NYC, USA)
Originally The Fiji Theatre Company, was founded in 1975 to explore the meaning of contemporary theatre and art on a national and international level. The company's mission is to explore the intersections of race, culture, history, art, media and technolo
Plasma (Zürich, Switzerland)
The Swiss drama group PLASMA sees itself as a laboratory in which is searched for theatrical forms of expression. Since 2001 projects have thereby come into being, which distinguish themselves by an own mark and by their professional translation into acti
PME-Art (Montréal (Québec) Canada)
Montreal-based interdisciplinary group.
Proto-type
Proto-type Theater is based in Lancaster, UK and Brooklyn, NY and we make original theater and media work that tours internationally.
Rachid Ouramdane (Paris, France)
French-born of Algerian descent, Rachid Ouramdane is at the forefront of Europe’s new generation of conceptual dance-thinkers and performers who are bringing vital new ideas to the stage.
Radio Hole
Brooklyn based hybrid performance collective.
Reactor (UK)
Reactor creates projects that place the audience in a central and interactive role, exploring the dynamics of group behaviour and the production of collective reality and responsibility;
Ricci/Forte
Performance company in Rome, Italy
Rimini Protokoll
Rimini Protokoll is the label for the works of artists Helgard Haug (female, German, born 1969), Stefan Kaegi (Swiss, b. 1972) and Daniel Wetzel (German, b. 1969) in various team constellations (related to theatre, live art, radio plays and installation),
Robbinschilds (NYC, USA)
robbinschilds was formed by movement artists Sonya Robbins and Layla Childs in 2003. The company, which was founded on the artistic director’s shared interest in performance and installation, is focused on presenting highly visual time-based works.
Robert Wilson
Since the late 1960s, Robert Wilson's productions have decisively shaped the look of theater and opera. Through his signature use of light, his investigations into the structure of a simple movement, the classical rigor of his scenic and furniture design,
Rochelle Haley (Sydney, Australia)
Experimental drawing, performance and installation artist
Rodrigo Garcia
Rude Mechs (Austin, Texas)
Since 1995, Rude Mechs has used performance to explore collectivity, collaboration, and community. The result is a mercurial slate of 22 original theatrical productions ranging from Low-Fi, Agit-Prop, Lec-Dems to Multi-Media, Romantic-Era, Closet Dramas.
Rudi skotheim Jensen (Norway)
Director, writer and choreographer within the "crossover" terminology, of the contemporary performing arts.
Santasangre
Santasangre is an artistic research project that was born in Rome in late 2001 from Diana Arbib, Luca Brinch, Maria Carmela Milan, Pasquale Tricoci. in 2004, with the arrival of Dario Salvagnini and Roberta Zanardo, reaching the current training.
Scott Heron (New Orleans, LA)
His solo and group work has been presented in practically every downtown New York venue including The Kitchen, Movement Research at Judson Church, Dixon Place and especially Performance Space 122 which has commissioned four evening-length works. Musical c
Smeds Ensemble (Helsinki, Finland)
A production unit which functions as a meeting forum for Finnish and international artists. Co-operation has been planned with major Finnish festivals and theatres, and also various organisations in Brussels, Tallinn, Vilnius, Linz and Budapest.
Snuff Puppets (Melbourne, Australia)
The company tours nationally and internationally, with shows on the streets, in circus tents, theatres and at rock concerts. Snuff Puppets combine the elements of puppetry, live music,[1] visual and physical theatre. Subjects that are considered taboo are
Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
Italian director Romeo Castellucci founded the theatre company Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio with his sister, Claudia Castellucci, and wife, Chiara Guidi, in 1981. In the twenty five years since, the group has staged some of the most radical and controversial
Station House Opera
With past projects ranging from spectacular site-specific works created with 10,000 concrete blocks, to simultaneous performances across continents using live internet streaming, Station House Opera is an internationally renowned performance company with
Superamas
SUPERAMAS have seen their task as taking on dance with materials from other areas of life. The group uses “untreated”, often unspectacular circumstances as well as readymades coming from everyday culture, and it treats those elements equally.
Taavet Jansen (Tallinn, Estonia)
Director, programmer and interdisciplinary artist. Graduated as choreographer in Tallinn University and got masters degree in dance and New Media program Dance Unlimited in Amsterdam Theatreschool. Worked with several renowned and not-yet-renowned artists
Tashmadada (Melbourne, Australia)
Tashmadada is a contemporary performance company committed to bringing together arts practitioners as well as providing a forum for discussion about the arts.
Temporary Distortion (NYC, USA)
A performance group who creates unique, nonlinear juxtapositions of text, image, and sound...focused on stillness, minimalism, and the search for a new style of chamber theater.
Tere O'Connor Dance (NYC)
Tere O’Connor’s choreography finds its logic outside the realm of “translation”. He views dance as a system of information with its own properties, an abstract documentary form that need not be assessed through the lens of western culture, spoken languag
Thaddeus Phillips & Lucidity Suitcase (Philadelphia, PA - USA)
The LUCIDITY SUITCASE Intercontinental is a theater creation team made up of artists from Colorado, Colombia, Iowa, New Mexico, New York & Bulgaria that use 'rough' media, documentary footage, transformational scenography, improvisation and research t
The Builders Association (NYC, USA)
Creates large-scale theater projects exploring the interface between live performance and media. Work re-animates theater for a contemporary audience, using current tools to interpret old forms. Productions combine historic and new texts with performance,
The Ontological-Hysteric Theater
Founded in 1968 by Richard Foreman with the aim of stripping the theater bare of everything but the singular and essential impulse to stage the static tension of interpersonal relations in space. The OHT seeks to produce works that balance a primitive an
The Relationship / Fiona Templeton (New York, USA)
)The Relationship is Fiona Temlpeton's performance group, specialising in innovative language, risky use of site, and the relationship to the audience.
The Wooster Group
An ensemble of artists who, under the direction of Elizabeth LeCompte, make work for theater, dance and media.
Thinaar (Brooklyn, NY)
A web repository for the work - upcoming and past - of playwright and performer Aaron Landsman. Landsman's locative and theatrical works have been presented in Belarus, Sweden and Norway.
Third Angel (Sheffield, UK)
Third Angel makes entertaining and original contemporary performance that speaks directly, honestly and engagingly to its audience. Established in Sheffield in 1995, the company makes work that encompasses performance, theatre, live art, installation, fil
Time Etchells - Notebook
The notebook / blog is updated pretty often and covers a wide range of stuff that I'm working on as well as things I'm seeing and thinking about.
Trajal Harrell (NYC, USA)
Born in Douglas, Georgia, he graduated from Yale University where he studied American Studies with a concentration in creative processes ― researching theater, literary theory, and art history.
Two Fish (Berlin, Germany)
Va Wölfi / Neuer Tanz (Düsseldorf, Germany)
VA Wölfl is director of the company Neuer Tanz, located at Schloss Benrath in Düsseldorf, since the mid 1980’s.
Vivarium Studio (Paris, France)
A laboratory for theatrical innovation which features painters, actors, dancers, musicians and animals.
Wu Ingrid Tsang
He engages the voice as a physical medium and metaphor. His projects and performances have been presented at REDCAT (LA), Art in General (NY), The Kitchen (NY), Espai d'Art Contemporani (Castellon), Sala de Art Publico Siqueiros (Mexico City), Impakt Fest
Yaemeen Godder (Jaffa, Israel)
Yasmeen Godder was born and raised in Jerusalem, and moved to New York with her family at age eleven. Her works have regularly been presented at the Suzanne Dellal Dance Center in Tel Aviv, and extensively throughout the world: Lincoln Center Festival in
Yelena Gluzman/This is a Science Project (Tokyo, Japan)
An initiative to examine the structures of contemporary life, through the collaborative creation of performance events. Recent activities of Yelena Gluzman's Science Project.
Young Jean Lee's Theater Company (NYC, USA)
An Obie Award-winning New York-based company that has been creating and presenting shows written and directed by Young Jean Lee since 2003.
